Can I be another user?

Earnie Boyd earnie_boyd@yahoo.com
Fri Aug 25 07:21:00 GMT 2000


--- Charles Krug <charles@pentek.com> wrote:
> Hello:
> 
> When I launch Cygwin under NT, I'm put into the home directory for
> Administrator, rather than my home directory.
> 
> Is there any option to Bash that can change this?
> 
> Under the old version, I HOME to point to my directory, cd to $HOME,
> then launch bash.
> 
> I certainly can do that again if bash doesn't have a parameter for this.
> 

What does /etc/passwd say is your home directory?

Cheers,

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   Earnie Boyd: < mailto:earnie_boyd@yahoo.com >
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